Rifle is the No. 1 team in Class 3A, and has started 2-0 in 2012. The Bears went 10-0 in last year’s regular season, and won in the first round of the playoffs before dropping a 36-15 game to eventual champion Windsor.

But Rifle’s not dwelling on the past, senior running back Ryan Moeller said.

“It sucked losing, and ending, in the quarterfinals, but we were the first team at our high school to go 11-0, the second team to go 10-0 in the regular season,” Moeller said. “But that’s all last year, that’s all in the past. It happened previous. We can think about that and everything, that’s great, but it’s not going to get anything done for this year, you know? It’s all got to be on what we work on now.” Read more…

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Neil Devlin, originally from the Philadelphia area, has covered high school sports in Colorado for more than 30 years, writing about the people, athletes and events that encompass the Rocky Mountain prep sports world.